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I have done everything multiple times,including the on/off WiFi. Also in different order, just to see. Just won't find/validate receiver. Tried manually putting in IP address multiple times. Nothing seems to make it go

My wife got her iPhone 5 on Friday. The DirecTV and Sunday Ticket apps both fail to utilize the whole screen. There is black all around the picture. On top, bottom, left, and right sides. Since I am anti-Apple, I don't know how to tell her to zoom the image to fill the screen when watching video. How do you do this?

My wife got her iPhone 5 on Friday. The DirecTV and Sunday Ticket apps both fail to utilize the whole screen. There is black all around the picture. On top, bottom, left, and right sides. Since I am anti-Apple, I don't know how to tell her to zoom the image to fill the screen when watching video. How do you do this?

Thanks!

I don't think you can. When they where talking about the new phone, they basically said it would do this for most things, and that the developers will have to update their apps. I'd bet on DirecTV and everyone else too, getting a update out pretty quick for this.

My wife got her iPhone 5 on Friday. The DirecTV and Sunday Ticket apps both fail to utilize the whole screen. There is black all around the picture. On top, bottom, left, and right sides. Since I am anti-Apple, I don't know how to tell her to zoom the image to fill the screen when watching video. How do you do this?

Thanks!

If you double tap the image it should zoom to fill the height, but you will still have black bars on the short sides.

I thought the iPhone 5 was true 16:9 and one of the advantages was full screen video actually fit the screen better. I know the app may have boarders top and bottom, but when a system call is made to invoke the video processing in ios6 on an iPhone 5, the render property specifies the 16:9 aspect ratio. Isn't directv complying with apple's spec?

Issue: Search Results Don't Match GuideI performed a search for Vegas today in the app as I heard the premiere was tonight after the NCIS premieres. The search results that came up when I performed a Search for Vegas did not list the showings I expected as the first episode listed was for 2am and another at 5am.

I then performed a search by listing all shows on a channel. In that case, the results only had two airings of the pilot: tonight at 10pm and Saturday at 8pm.

Here are some screenshots from the app. The first two are from the Search results. The next two are from selecting the show from the Channel Listing.

Issue: Search Results Sorted by Date is IncorrectWhen viewing upcoming episodes of a show, it does not show it in correct order if the airings are in September and October. Instead of showing Sept.'s airings first, it is displaying Oct.'s first. I assume this is because the "1" as part of the number for "10" for Oct. is less than the "9" for Sept.

Why doesn't DTV allow streaming from the DVR to the iPhone or iPad app?

I think it needs to be transcoded in real time, on the fly. Neither the DVR or iPhone have that kind of horsepower. DirecTV2PC can do it but the sys requirements for smooth playback are pretty steep. The full power of a PC is used in that case.

I think it needs to be transcoded in real time, on the fly. Neither the DVR or iPhone have that kind of horsepower. DirecTV2PC can do it but the sys requirements for smooth playback are pretty steep. The full power of a PC is used in that case.